Re: shared rests between voice parts?

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen

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Re: shared rests between voice parts?

Date:

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:14:33 +0200

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Arvid Grøtting writes:
>> That sounds like a job for \partcombine, see input/test/hymn.ly
>
> Won't that give a single stem when the voices share a note head?
No, there's splitInterval just for that.
> And
> won't rests that exist in one voice only, be dropped?
No.
> Traditionally in SATB (and TTBB) notated on two staffs, common rests
> are shared, while stems go S:up/A:down/T:up/B:down even when
> occationally singing in unison for a short while.
That's just one application of the part combiner.
Jan.
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